Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller has one other splashy addition to its forged in Oscar nominee Josh Brolin (Dune: Half Two), Deadline can affirm.
No phrase on the position he’ll be enjoying within the threequel from writer-director Rian Johnson. Daniel Craig will return to reprise his position as famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc, with Josh O’Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis and Daryl McCormack additionally set to star, as beforehand introduced.
A recent revival of the homicide thriller style, the Knives Out franchise facilities on the investigations of Craig’s character, Blanc. The sequence of launched with Johnson’s 2019 whodunit of the identical identify, starring Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer and extra, which grossed over $310 million worldwide. Following the recognition of the primary movie, which landed an Oscar nomination for its screenplay, Netflix acquired the rights to supply two sequels for $450 million — the primary of which, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, was launched in 2022.
Johnson is directing Wake Up Useless Man from his personal script, additionally producing alongside associate Ram Bergman for T-Road.
THR was first to the information.